alc./vol: 40%
Proof: 80°
Vintage: Non-vintage
Aged: No age statement
Product of: United Kingdom
This blended Scotch whisky was created when William Sanderson, a blender in Leith, produced 100 different blends and asked a panel of tasters to choose their favourite. Obviously, they preferred blend, or vatting, number 69 and he started marketing the brand in 1882, originally in port wine bottles.
William Sanderson was born in Leith, Scotland, in 1839 and at the age of 13 started his apprenticeship at a wine and spirits merchants. By 1863, he owned his own business producing liqueurs and whisky blends. His son William Mark joined the business in 1880 and it was Mark who instigated the bottling of their whisky blends.
In 1884, the Sandersons bought Glengarioch Distillery and together with Usher and Bell founded a company to produce grain whisky – today this exists today as the North British Distillery. Sanderson sourced some of the malt whisky used in his blends from a friend, John Begg, owner of the Royal Lochnagar Distillery. When Begg died, Sanderson became director of Begg's Distillery and in 1933, Sanderson’s company merged with Booth's Distilleries, shortly after merging again with the DCL-Group (now Diageo) in 1935.
Sampled on 24/12/2012
Clear, golden amber.
Buttery floral and honeyed notes over a malty base.
Well balanced malted barley, grain, honey and restrained salty smoke with fruit cake, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Salty, lightly smoked malty finish.
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